By Bracha Turner, Los Angeles, CA
It is a shameful experience to live as a distracted parent when your kids love and forgiveness for you is their entire world. So how do you connect with the things that matter most when you have other seemingly more urgent obligations?

By Miriam Metzinger, Jerusalem Israel
Transcending the work-life balance involves no longer seeing aspects of life in conflict with each other, but bringing them together through viewing them as part of the same goal.

By Yael Rosenberger, Brooklyn, NY
Keeping up with unrealistic standards of perfection and a world that doesn’t celebrate the subtleties of modesty exhausts us. So how can we foster the inner part of ourselves that is pure, untainted, yet often silent?

By Mali New, Brooklyn, NY
We don’t ask for pain. We prefer our own shallow versions of goodness to the greater kind masked as catastrophe. So how does one train himself to see the inherent goodness lying dormant in each challenge?

By Akiva Becker, Ramat Gan, Israel
No matter what roadblocks lay in one’s path of life, the way the situation is perceived will determine what outcome is generated. So how does one control what comes to mind?

By Shmuel Kesselman, Brooklyn, NY
Why should I engage myself in a battle of self-improvement when I am told of the impossibility of total victory? What is it worth if the battle is won, but never the war?

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I am so very honored to have the privileged of attending your class. Your thoughts and words really enhance my spirit, and revolutionized my perspective on life. You have taught me about love and pain, about happiness and sadness, and given me the tools to utilize these opposing energies as driving forces in my own life. Your words never fail to enter in my heart and tears always come out. I pray that l will be able to continue using your teaching to guide me in a life of true happiness.